Dave Spector

Dave Spector

@dhmspector.bsky.social

Software Engineer & Writer in DevPubs @  • A NewYorker in SF • ex-Wall St’er • Foodie • Coffee roaster • Maker • Photographer • W2DHM • Opinions are mine, not my employer’s • Born at 318.43 ppm * Wannabe flâneur

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Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Bad news, Bill — at any second of the day or night you can see videos of murders and even executions from countries like Iran. Back in the 70s the evangelical right was actually right when they screeched about violence in media desensitizing us to all this— and now they are it’s biggest purveyors.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

“It’s about degrading the people. It’s about desensitizing the public. The United States military is far better than this. Senior officials should protest, and if necessary resign, rather than being complicit in the voyeuristic degradation of our democracy.” www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wa...

thebulwark.comHegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff FilmNeo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

“The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, “1984” www.livenowfox.com/news/white-h...

livenowfox.comWhite House responds to backlash over Trump's ‘take out’ LA, San Diego remarksThe White House is pushing back against backlash over President Trump’s comments about attacks on California cities, saying his remarks were misunderstood, and the reaction was “not rooted in reality....
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

This week's @onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the #AI #apocalypse & message manipulation using AI. Re: “killer agents,” it's very good / balanced on what's really happening here and how important it is to NOT anthropomorphize these systems and freak yourself out. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgHow Extinction Entered the AI Debate | On the Media | WNYC StudiosAI researchers are warning that the technology they’re creating could kill us all. On this week’s On the Media, unpacking the feverish debate over the dangers of artificial intelligen...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

“Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, you find you’ve barely scratched the surface.” — Steve Post I mean, just when you think he cannot shock you any more… there’s literally no bottom to the lies this maniac will tell. Literally. thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-...

thedailybeast.comTrump Tells Jaw-Dropping Lie About Being ‘Rescued’ on 9/11Trump’s wild claim was made at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks.
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Nothing says “America first!” Like undercutting US cattle ranchers with cheap beef from foreign sources that you refuse to divulge that you’re going to sell at below market prices… meidasnews.com/news/mystery...

meidasnews.comMystery Meat: Trump Refuses to Say Where His New Flood of Foreign Beef Is Coming FromTrump says he has struck a deal to bring 300,000 metric tons of cheaper foreign beef into the United States. There’s one detail he won’t reveal: who the deal is actually with.

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nomadRuss
@russlinton.com

Dumbest possible take. Cuba can't prohect this kind of power. Even back in the day during the Cuban missike crisis, theur apex of being a US threat, they were just a USSR proxy. Anybody who believes Rubio's take on this is a useful idiot themself.

Dave Spector@dhmspector.bsky.social

@onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the shambling, corpse of 50s/60s right wing bogeyman of communism. This time, with the last actual communist state — Cuba — as the nexus is a global movement that’s controlling all democrats in an attempt overthrow US democracy. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Perfectly tailgating on @onthemedia.bsky.social, this week’s @revealnews.org dives into the Trump’s family separation horrors leaving kids to fend for themselves as their parents are put into detention camps. revealnews.org/podcast/ice-...

revealnews.orgChildren are being left behind as ICE detains parents across the countrySix miles from Mar-a-Lago, Guatemalan families are being ripped apart. Kids are left to fend for themselves as ICE detains their parents.
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

The second part of this week’s show details the utterly immoral and unsafe conditions on Trump’s deportation flights. This depravity of all of this is mind boggling and horribly upsetting.

Dave Spector@dhmspector.bsky.social

@onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the shambling, corpse of 50s/60s right wing bogeyman of communism. This time, with the last actual communist state — Cuba — as the nexus is a global movement that’s controlling all democrats in an attempt overthrow US democracy. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

@onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the shambling, corpse of 50s/60s right wing bogeyman of communism. This time, with the last actual communist state — Cuba — as the nexus is a global movement that’s controlling all democrats in an attempt overthrow US democracy. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

@onthemedia.bsky.social this week is quite a sobering look at America at 250— the de-facto destruction of the 1st Amendment in Texas verdicts making political speech illegal and the racist, dark truths embedded in Independence Day in post civil war America. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe Fantasy of America at 250 | On the Media | WNYC StudiosIn Texas, a judge sentenced a group of anti-ICE demonstrators to decades in prison. On this week’s On the Media, how leftist zines were used to convict a group of protesters accused o...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Everyone’s fav’ trillionaire is literally fomenting violence in the streets of Belfast and elsewhere. This week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social documents the right wing violence Elon is instigating: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe UK’s Violent Riots Were Stoked by Elon Musk and a Global Far-Right Network | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, a mob attacked immigrant communities in Northern Ireland after Elon Musk fomented anger on X. On this week’s On the Media, hear how a group linked with a global neo-Nazi mo...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

@onthemedia.bsky.social this week looks at the approaching reckoning of Trump’s Iran war versus the economy and what happens when denial meets reality, and part II of “American Emergency” and the right wing attacks on FEMA looking at the Katrina catastrophe. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe Psychology of Sticking Your Head in the Sand. Plus, Ep. 2 of American Emergency. | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high, despite a deepening global energy crisis. On this week’s On the Media, the mismatch between the stock market and reality. Plus, to underst...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

🧵↓ Yep. This is peak “got their PhD in TikTok ‘I did my own research’ …” craziness.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

i feel like there's been a noticeable increase in the amount of casually batshit stuff i'm seeing across every single social media platform. bonkers opinions that usually have felt mostly constrained to the internet-poisoned outskirts just very commonly stated w/ little pushback.

Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Wow. This week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social delves into the MAGA right’s #TinfoilHat conspiracy brigade including — ironically — the idea that the Butler “assassination attempt” was staged. It’s too bad they don’t do the show live. It’d be wiiiiiiiiild…. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgGrab Your Tin Foil Hat for The Onion's Takeover of Infowars | On the Media | WNYC StudiosEarlier this month, Donald Trump posted an AI picture that seemed to depict him as Jesus Christ. On the week’s On the Media, why the image drew so much ire from Trump’s own followers....
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

@onthemedia.bsky.social is hitting it out of the park with their explainers on just how dangerous the Christian nationalism being played out by SecDef Hegseth and the Trump admin is (and, in the second part, Thiel’s apocalypse fixation). www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgPete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThe U.S. has waged war on Iran for more than a month now. On this week’s On the Media, what Defense Secretary Hegseth’s monthly Pentagon prayer meetings reveal about his war strategy....
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

When the 90+ year old holocaust survivors are trying to hide the Haitians and save them from deportation … …it’s time for the rest of you all to wake the fuck up. www.instagram.com/p/DULayhHiN1...

instagram.comThe Times of Israel on Instagram: "“That reminds me of Anne Frank,” Rachel Blumberg, president and CEO of the center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “There’s a kindred bond between our residents ...1,512 likes, 117 comments - timesofisrael on January 31, 2026: "“That reminds me of Anne Frank,” Rachel Blumberg, president and CEO of the center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “There’s a kindre...

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Chris Adamson
@invalidname.me

I’m coming to realize there are two kinds of people in this country: those who think there’s too much suffering in the world, and those who think there’s not enough.

Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Great @onthemedia.bsky.social about #Trump v #Powell, the interview with Mark Blyth, professor of International Economics and Public Affairs at Brown University is stellar. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgTrump's War on the Fed, Explained. Plus, How One School Teacher Stood Up to Putin. | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThe Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation against the Federal Reserve and its chairman. On this week’s On the Media, hear how the Trump administration’s pressure ca...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Laws are for the Little People” — Leona Helmsley All of these people operate in a different sphere of existence from the rest of us. Why are you surprised in the least?

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

theatlantic.comElon Musk Cannot Get Away With ThisIf there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

“Is your ‘army’ in the room with us right now, Dan?”

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem. And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.

Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

Yet another disappointment for Laurence Tribe to know one of top students doesn’t even know that Mamdani can’t possibly, ever run for president. That’s the nature of Rafael “Ted” Cruz to be a disappointment: To his law professors. His wife (whom he’s incapable of defending), his constituents…

#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

Ted Cruz Fearmongers About Mamdani Presidency

twp.aicrooksandliars.comTed Cruz Fearmongers About Mamdani Presidency | Crooks and Liars
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

The way to stop these “pundits” and their toxic BS is to make them part of the story. Open up their lives a sardine can and drag all their skeletons out into the light. It’s the only way to reset the media playing field.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Poll: Americans say “too divided” Pundit: Dems are being too divisive Poll: Legal system unfair Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes Poll: Low trust in media Pundits: MSM is too far left Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

You wanna really have an existential freak out — this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social will provide it: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgAuthoritarianism, but Make It Look Normal. Plus, the Family Taking Over American Media. | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThe Supreme Court has returned to the bench and is poised to hear major cases on tariffs and federal firings. On this week’s On the Media, how a century-old legal theory may help us u...
Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

This has been true since Trump’s firing of many career DOJ officials, but is now is terminally true: ANYONE who stays on in their jobs at DOJ after this is not just complicit, but a co-conspirator in Trump’s lawlessness. Everyone needs to resign. Today.

Dave Spector
@dhmspector.bsky.social

What Black MAGA? The dozen or so paid rally attendees?

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

As the Trump administration removes Black historical images and markers from national parks and museums, @garrisonhayes.bsky.social raises an important question: Where are those Black MAGA voters now that Trump is wiping this history from the books?

motherjones.comWhere's Black MAGA while Trump wipes Black history?The president once hailed himself as "the best president for the Black population."